Nymph

Nymph (ニンフ) is an Electronic Warfare Angeloid Type β (Beta) (電子戦用エンジェロイドタイプβ（ベータ）), is one of the characters from the Sora no Otoshimono series who mysteriously appears in Tomoki's house, originally being tasked with returning Ikaros back to the Synapse.

Personality
Nymph is initially condescending toward humans, whom she refers to as "bugs or downers." She soon develops feelings for Tomoki and later confesses to him. After the Harpies attempt to kill her, she betrays Synapse and assists Tomoki, having moved into his home thereafter. Her wings were torn off by the Harpies, and it bothered her greatly. They regrew when she accepts Tomoki as her new master. However, delighted at having her wings regrown, she forgets about the imprinting process and finds it extremely difficult to broach the subject to Tomoki. By her own admission, it is not a difficult task, but she feels embarrassed enough to eventually back out of asking him. She eventually asks Tomoki to allow her to imprint on him, but he refuses, since he wants her to live freely, not understanding her point of view.

Nymph is a sweet tooth. She frequently snacks on chips and other packeted junk food while living in Tomoki's house. She likes watching soap operas. In her new daily life after moving in to Tomoki's house, she experiences many of the joys of the human world that are new to her in a cheerful, childish way, fitting her appearance.

She refers to the other Angeloids by their types rather than their names, like calling Ikaros, Alpha. Due to her Angeloid settings, she is an intellectual genius, capable of a wide range of intellectual activities such as science, music and arts.

Nymph is sometimes extremely spiteful, to the extent of being almost sadistic against those she believes to be lower than herself. For instance, during her time in Synapse after receiving one of the frequent punishments from Minos, she sang in front of the Oregano Angeloids, evidently damaging them. She never displays any remorse for acts like these, revealing a darker side of her.

Appearance
Nymph is shorter than the other Angeloids. She has long blue hair styled in twin-pigtails with bangs that fall irregularly against her relatively pale skin. She has ultramarine eyes and eyebrows that are in the same powder blue as her hair.

On several occasions within the story arcs - especially in the first season, she has been called "cute" and is clearly thought of as being very attractive, evidenced mostly in The Brainy, Heart-Pounding Transfer Students along with Ikaros, and again in the second season with Astraea; both of her brethren are called "ridiculously attractive" by Sohara.

Her body is built differently than most other Angeloids. Nymph has slightly disproportioned hips and thighs that are much more pronounced against her otherwise small build. Her collar is also different from that of the other Angeloids. It is thicker than her neck and around the same width as her head, covering all of her neck. It is also much bulkier and nowhere near as fitted as most other collars seen on the other Angeloids. It is colored black with white outline.

Her wings are not feathers. They are more like the iridescent wings of an insect, with hues varying anywhere between the colors of purple and green. She usually wears an extremely short dress with black, vertical stripes going down the front and ending at her thighs, and white gloves that go up to the elbows. She wears a cape of two colors, white on the outside and salmon on the inside that is split into many slitted rectangles, and shoulder pads. Nymph wears high boots that are mainly white but change to a coal color that go up to her thighs; there are two thin strips of white cloth connecting her boots and the main article of clothing she wears. She also never wears panties. Her measurements are: a bust of 72 cm, a waist of 45 cm, and hips of 68 cm. Her height is 139 cm (4'7") and she weighs 29 kilograms (63.8 lbs).

Plot


The Man of Synapse orders Nymph to go down to Earth to "retrieve" Ikaros for him.

Nymph sets off to Sorami to locate and intercept Ikaros for extraction, but is hampered as Ikaros has become linked to Tomoki. Moreover, she excels at hacking and stealth, but her overall strength is severely lacking compared to her Ikaros. Nymph hacks into Ikaros' systems, unlocking the restraints on the emotional controls that render Ikaros submissive towards others. Unknown to Nymph, the restraints on the emotional controls also restrict the ability for Ikaros to utilize her ultra-powerful Uranus Queen mode, and Ikaros activates it. Nymph is threatened by Ikaros with her Apollon bow. Nymph retreats to Synapse to inform her master of her failure.

Back on the palace grounds in Synapse, Nymph is punished for her failure by the Master of Synapse. He forces her to tear out the wings of her pet bird. He attaches a time-delayed bomb collar around her neck, which will detonate if she takes too long to recover Ikaros or if he wishes for her to die.

Nymph returns to Tomoki's house in order to get close to her target Ikaros again, but over time she starts to develop feelings for Tomoki and becomes good friends with Ikaros. Seeing how nicely Tomoki and his friends treat Ikaros and herself, Nymph cannot bring herself to carry out her orders and does not carry out her mission. She decides to enjoy the last few days of freedom since the explosive collar around her neck nears the day of detonation. With less than a 1/4th of the bar remaining on the timer and seeing that Nymph will not carry out his orders, the Man of Synapse sends the two Harpies Angeloids to help "persuade" Nymph to finish her mission and please her Master. The Harpies eventually confront Nymph and trick her into a plan that involves bringing the unknowing Ikaros to a predetermined location so they can capture her and return to their master. They also lie to her that their master back in Synapse would be pleased with her if she succeeded, which convinces her to follow through with their scheme. While the two Harpies leave and prepare the trap, Nymph returns to Tomoki's house and asks Ikaros to join her to see a beautiful cherry tree that is in full bloom.

When the two Angeloids arrive at the cherry tree at the foot of the mountains, the two Harpies (hidden from Ikaros by a special shield that makes them invisible to everyone) await the perfect moment to strike. Using their powerful Prometheus cannons, they fire a massive blast of energy at the unsuspecting Ikaros, striking her with such force that it shears off one of her pink wings and knocks her out cold. Nymph, shocked demands to know why they attacked her so brutally. The Harpies clue Nymph in on their real assignment from their master in Synapse, and prepare to depart with Ikaros's limp body.

Horrified at what the Harpies true intentions are, and how brutally the Harpies attacked Ikaros, Nymph launches her Paradise Song attack, taking the two Harpies by surprise with a powerful energy blast. Both Harpies escaped her attack with minor energy burns, and attack Nymph. They pin her to the ground and proceed to rip out both of her wings out, taking twisted pleasure in the screams of agony Nymph releases as she struggles to stay alive. Behind them, the lifeless form of Ikaros starts to stir as her systems recover from the surprise attack that had knocked her out moments ago. Tomoki, Sohara, Eishirou, and Mikako, who have been looking for the two Angeloids after discovering them to be missing earlier, arrive at the site of the fight and are shocked to see a battered Ikaros on the ground, while the two Harpies continue to harass Nymph. Ikaros, still shaken from the vicious attack moments ago, prepares to activate her ultimate power: the Uranus Queen program.

The Harpies divert their attention to the group of humans and Ikaros behind them, surprised that she was able to recover from their attack so quickly. Nymph, unsure of what Tomoki and his friends will think of Ikaros if she uses her Uranus Queen mode, implores Ikaros not to use it. But Ikaros activates Uranus Queen mode with Tomoki's approval and repairs her injuries. The Harpies panic and fire their Prometheus cannons at Ikaros, but their shots are effortlessly deflected by the Aegis Shield that protects Ikaros during her Uranus Queen mode.

Meanwhile, Tomoki and his friends desperately try to free Nymph from her master's explosive in her collar, which will activate and kill Nymph in minutes. They manage to break the chain of servitude with a spare axe that Eishiro had in his possession, thus freeing Nymph from servitude to the Master of Synapse.

Forte Arc
After becoming free, she wanted a new master and considers Tomoki.

Hiyore Kazane Arc
After Kazane "dies", she opts not to tell Tomoki the true nature of her existence. She later comforts Tomoki when he begins experiencing headaches. After the weather goes hayware, she flies out to confront its source.

End
In the final arc, Nymph redoes the imprinting process with Minos in order to re-activate the bomb implanted in her collar. This was in order to destroy Zeus and all the Ikaros Melans. In her final thoughts, Nymph remembers marriage can only occur between one man and one woman and leaves Tomoki to Ikaros. Thinking about her life as an Angeloid, she would have rather had Tomoki as a Master if she could re-start everything.

In chapter 77, Nymph and the others are alive again because of Tomoki's wish. They now live a normal life and also accept Chaos into the family.

Abilities and Weapons
She specializes in her incredible hacking abilities and impressive stealth modes that allow her to gain the tactical advantage against her enemies in both battle and on special missions though she is much weaker in combat compared to the other Angeloids shown in the story arcs. Unlike Ikaros, Nymph can fully conceal her wings by making them invisible to the human eye, so that when among humans, she can blend in their ranks better than Ikaros could ever do with her non-concealable pink wings. Her ultimate attack is the Paradise Song, a powerful sonic beam of rainbow-colored energy that shoots out of her mouth and if struck by it, it deals massive damage to the victim shown in the rare occasions the she uses it, it leaves behind a trench of cleared-out ground (i.e. dirt).

Relationships

 * Tomoki Sakurai - Unofficial master; friend; romantic interest.


 * Sohara Mitsuki - Friend; romantic rival.


 * Eishirou Sugata - Friend.


 * Mikako Satsukitane - Friend.


 * Astraea - "Sister"; romantic rival.


 * Ikaros - "Sister"; romantic rival.


 * Master of Synapse - Former master; enemy.


 * Daedalus - "Creator".


 * Chaos - "Sister".


 * Hiyori Kazane - Friend; classmate; romantic rival.


 * Oregano - (Almost) Rival.
 * Watermelon - Unknown Status, but won't hesitate to eat if hungry.

Trivia

 * She refers to the other Angeloids by their type rather than their names (i.e. Ikaros→Alpha, Astraea→Delta..etc).
 * Her bust size is the smallest out of every female character in the series (All the other female characters have a very voluminous breasts), and whenever someone else mentions it to her, it makes her feel insecure. This has been shown several times (When Tomoki mentions it, she tends to get angry).
 * She is also an intellectual genius (When she's at school, she is always looking to the windows, completely disregarding the class itself since it doesn't interest her).
 * Nymph is horrible at singing which is confirmed by Oregano. Once when she sang, Ikaros put a sign up that said Super Paradise Song (she couldn't say it because she lost her voice due to eating something extremely spicy earlier that day) and then covered her ears, anticipating the effects of it. (She even activated Aegis later on) When Nymph sang, it showed all of the people far or near who collapsed because of her singing. Anyone within range, (with the exception of Ikaros) also temporarily lost their linguistic ability.
 * She is named and modeled after the nature spirits of Greek myth.
 * Nymph has a fondness for birds.
 * Due to that Nymph now lives in Tomoki's house, she likes to eat lots of junk food such as chips and sweets.
 * In Season 2, Episode 4 (13m:12s), as the girls take a bath, it is seen that Nymph has her hair down, just like her Pandora form.
 * She believes that she is the second oldest stating that Astraea is the "young one" in the house.
 * She inherits Daedalus' blue hair and extreme intelligence, but it is unknown if Daedalus also has blue eyes, and Nymph is built differently compared to her sisters.
 * Nymph was featured in one of Plunderer manga's cover, where she's wearing Hina's clothes in the second Animate version of Volume 2's cover.
 * Nymph shared same English voice actress with Avsette Vremya from Suu Minazuki's other work, Plunderer.

Gallery
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